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To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead. Shak. Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize. South.

ed of my liberty. Chaucer. While she, great saint, rejoices heaven. Prior. Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made. Arbuthnot.

Only half alive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.] Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. Shak.

e; to change one's position. I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. Byron.

[Obs.] Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive. Chapman.

To remain alive; to continue to live. Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors. Sir J. Denham. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. Longfellow.

Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

The thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.

s stalketh stately by. Spenser. To be, or To stand, a tiptoe or on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.

ous. One species (Tortrix scytalæ) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.

Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.

An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

n a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous. Viviparous fish. (Zoöl.) See Embiotocoid. -- Viviparous shell (Zoöl.),…

To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [Colloq.] Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

s, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market.